Enterprise PMO Lead
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About the Role
Andersen is hiring an Enterprise PMO Lead for a large-scale transformation program in Dubai. The role involves setting up PMO governance, managing program plans, and coordinating with senior stakeholders.
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Responsibilities
- Set up and manage the PMO governance structure for the back office transformation program
- Maintain the master program plan, milestones, RAID log, decision log, dependency tracker, and governance calendar
- Define reporting cadence, escalation routes, steering committee structure, and program controls
- Ensure all parties are clear on ownership, deadlines, deliverables, risks, and required decisions
- Work closely with the CFO, CTO, business heads, Andersen, KGiSL, and other stakeholders
- Prepare executive level status reports, steering committee packs, dashboards, and decision papers
- Translate complex program activity into clear, concise updates for senior leadership
- Ensure open risks, delays, blockers, and decisions are escalated early and properly documented
- Coordinate the overall back office transformation roadmap
- Track progress across requirements, due diligence, implementation planning, testing, migration, cutover, training, and go live readiness
- Ensure business, technology, legal, compliance, finance, and vendor workstreams remain aligned
- Support business readiness and ensure implementation activity stays connected to operating priorities
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Enterprise PMO, Program Management, Transformation Governance, or Strategic Program Delivery
- Strong experience in PMO methodology, governance, program controls, and executive reporting
- Experience in financial services, capital markets, brokerage, banking, fintech, or similar regulated environments
- Experience coordinating complex business and technology transformation programs
- Strong stakeholder management across senior leadership, business, IT, finance, legal, compliance, and vendors
- Experience preparing steering committee materials, executive dashboards, decision papers, and program status reports
- Experience managing multi vendor environments
- Experience in RAID and dependency management
- Upper Intermediate or above English
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Role Overview
- Andersen is hiring an Enterprise PMO Lead for a large scale transformation program focused on governance, stakeholder management, and cross functional delivery coordination.
- The customer is a leading publicly listed financial services company in the Middle East.
- The project is focused on governing and coordinating a large scale back office transformation program.
Responsibilities
- Setting up and managing the PMO governance structure for the back office transformation program.
- Maintaining the master program plan, milestones, RAID log, decision log, dependency tracker, and governance calendar.
- Defining reporting cadence, escalation routes, steering committee structure, and program controls.
- Ensuring all parties are clear on ownership, deadlines, deliverables, risks, and required decisions.
- Working closely with the CFO, CTO, business heads, Andersen, KGiSL, and other stakeholders.
- Preparing executive level status reports, steering committee packs, dashboards, and decision papers.
- Translating complex program activity into clear, concise updates for senior leadership.
- Ensuring open risks, delays, blockers, and decisions are escalated early and properly documented.
- Coordinating the overall back office transformation roadmap.
- Tracking progress across requirements, due diligence, implementation planning, testing, migration, cutover, training, and go live readiness.
- Ensuring business, technology, legal, compliance, finance, and vendor workstreams remain aligned.
- Supporting business readiness and ensuring implementation activity stays connected to operating priorities.
Must haves
- Experience in Enterprise PMO, Program Management, Transformation Governance, or Strategic Program Delivery for 5+ years.
- Strong experience in PMO methodology, governance, program controls, and executive reporting.
- Experience working in financial services, capital markets, brokerage, banking, fintech, investment platforms, or similar regulated environments.
- Experience coordinating complex business and technology transformation programs.
- Strong stakeholder management across senior leadership, business, IT, finance, legal, compliance, and vendors.
- Experience preparing steering committee materials, executive dashboards, decision papers, and program status reports.
- Experience managing multi vendor environments.
- Experience in RAID and dependency management.
- Level of English – Upper Intermediate or above.
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